🧵 There’s a lot of talk about Armed Queers SLC after Charlie Kirk’s assassination—especially since they suddenly deleted their Instagram account.
This thread explains who they are and what they stand for. 👇
1️⃣ Origins and Purpose
Armed Queers Salt Lake City (AQSLC) is a socialist LGBTQ+ collective founded in summer 2020 during the nationwide George Floyd protest wave.
📍 Based in Salt Lake City, it grew out of local Black Lives Matter marches and queer mutual-aid networks.
Organizers say they created the group to protect queer and trans people—especially Black and brown trans women—from harassment and violence, citing rising hate crimes and what they call “state and right-wing attacks” on LGBTQ+ communities.
2️⃣ Ideology
AQSLC describes itself as revolutionary, anti-capitalist, and anti-fascist.
They call for queer self-determination, the abolition of police and prisons, and dismantling of colonial and capitalist power structures.
They emphasize mutual aid networks and direct action, drawing on radical queer history, anti-imperialism, and socialist theory (including Paulo Freire).
3️⃣ Guns as Core Strategy
Unlike most LGBTQ+ groups, AQSLC openly embraces gun ownership.
They argue that gun-control laws often disarm working-class and marginalized people while far-right extremists stay armed.
Members say carrying firearms provides a visible deterrent against hate-motivated attacks.
4️⃣ Founders & Instagram Deletion
The group was co-founded in mid-2020 by Ermiya Fanaeian and fellow queer activists from Utah’s protest scene.
Fanaeian—known for March for Our Lives work—helped launch AQSLC to defend LGBTQ+ communities and promote socialist, anti-police ideals.
Other early organizers remain largely anonymous, consistent with the group’s collective identity and security concerns.
Ermiya Fanaeian also started the Pink Pistols chapter in Salt Lake City before starting Queers SLC
"My name is Ermiya Fanaeian, and I am a student at Salt Lake School for The Performing Arts. For the last three years I have worked as a sociopolitical organizer for the Utah Pride Center, and The ACLU of Utah.
“My activism work as revolved around a multiplicity of political issues but I have focused primarily on Trans rights." My activism work has revolved around a multiplicity of political issues but I have focused primarily on Trans rights. I plan on studying Law and one day running for state legislature. Tackling the issue of gun control is important to me because I am done with the senseless violence that is affecting our education.”
Ermiya confounded the Utah chapter of March for Our Live in March 2018 which was a youth led gun violence prevention movement.
His stance pivoted around mid 2020 when he found the Pink Pistols SLC
“Pulse, for me, was a huge pivot point, wanting to shift my understanding of what guns can do for us, as well as my time spent in the gun violence prevention movement. I was actually a gun-control activist for years and years.”
Their focus was arming young people in their 20’s.
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🧵 How George Soros bankrolls the “No Kings” protest network
1️⃣ The Setup
What looks like a spontaneous protest is anything but.
The “No Kings” partners trace back to George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and its proxy groups like Tides Foundation.
The same handful of intermediaries push millions through nonprofits that share staff, goals, and donors, all marching under the same “grassroots” banner.
2️⃣ Legal & Advocacy Front
The ACLU Foundation alone got $16.7 million from OSF, plus nearly another million through Tides.
Add in groups like the Feminist Majority Foundation and the Arab American Institute, and you’ve got Soros’s fingerprints on nearly every “civil liberties” cause that later shows up at protests.
It’s not grassroots when one billionaire oligarch bankrolls the lawyers and the lawsuits.
3️⃣The Climate Coalition
The “environmental” wing is heavily funded too:
• League of Conservation Voters – $13 M
• Friends of the Earth – $1.4 M
• Center for Biological Diversity – $1 M
• Oil Change International – $6.8 M
These same groups lobby in DC and run the street rallies. Soros funds both the messaging and the movement.
🧵The Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) is under fire after being linked to funding Antifa-aligned groups.
AFGJ hit back, insisting they don’t fund other organizations and claim they were “deplatformed” after payment processors, pressured by right-wing activists, blocked their ability to receive online donations, which they call their lifeline for fundraising.
But here’s what AFGJ isn’t telling you…
@DataRepublican
AFGJ says it “does not fund any organization other than our own.”
Yet its two most recent Form-990s show grants/assistance paid to others:
- $565,232 (FY ending 3/31/2023)
-$442,187 (FY ending 3/31/2024).
Schedule details for FY2024 name outside recipients, for example:
🔹 East Bay Sanctuary Covenant: $53,558
🔹 Community Initiatives: $30,000
🔹 The People’s Forum: $26,894 (Neville Singham’s organization)
Bottom line: by its own filings, money flows beyond “our own.”
AFGJ’s fiscal-sponsorship (FSP) model provides the infrastructure that lets aligned projects raise and move money:
🔹 Hosted donation pages and back-office processing
🔹 Ability to receive foundation grants through AFGJ
🔹 Payroll and benefits for project staff
🔹 An admin fee of ~8% on donations
Even if you don’t call it “grant-making,” this setup routes funds through AFGJ to third parties—functionally, that’s funding.
🧵 Uncovering the Left’s “Firewall” Playbook: How Democrat Governors, Backed by Wealthy Donors, Aim to Block America’s Trump’s Agenda.
In 2024, Julia Spiegel, CEO of GovAct and former top legal advisor to Gov. Gavin Newsom, wrote a guidebook for Governors Safeguarding Democracy.
Unelected staff and lawyers from the group, led by Spiegel, drafted it as a “Confidential Draft.
It is intended for blue-state governors resist federal rules. The group is led by Democratic governors J.B. Pritzker from IL and Jared Polis from CO.
GovAct supports it, and Global Impact handles its finances. This guide is not about protecting democracy. Instead, it’s a guide on how to block Trump’s agenda.
GovAct gets money from Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund. He has given over $425 million to similar projects since 2014. The MacArthur Foundation also gave $1 million in 2025 to Global Impact for GovAct. These donors support open borders and liberal causes. Grant records show this clearly.
It includes a model executive order called “Firewall for Freedom.” This order stops states from helping National Guard units from other states if the governor disagrees.
“No Assistance to Deployments Over Objection of the Office of the Governor. … shall provide no time, money, facilities, property, equipment, personnel, or other resources for purposes of assistance to any National Guard unit of another state that is deployed to this State, if the Office of the Governor … has objected to such deployment.”
The goal is to protect illegal immigrants from being deported.
🧵 Who's Backing the Antifa Thugs Attacking ICE Agents? Unmasking the National Lawyers Guild as Their Legal Arm
Across America, Antifa militants are ramping up violence against ICE agents—laying siege to facilities, doxing officers, and turning protests into riots.
In Portland, rioters have repeatedly attacked an ICE processing center, clashing with feds in what DHS calls assaults by "Antifa-aligned left-wing violent extremists."
Similar chaos in Chicago and Illinois, with arrests for blocking and confronting agents.
Who's enabling these domestic terrorists to keep coming back?
Enter the National Lawyers Guild (NLG)—the radical legal arm shielding them from justice.
Founded in 1937 as a far-left foil to the American Bar Association, the NLG was branded by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1950 as the "legal bulwark of the Communist Party."
That communist-rooted legacy lives on, making the NLG the go-to legal arm for Antifa's assaults on ICE and law enforcement.
They don't just watch—they actively protect the perpetrators.
Take their "Mass Defense Program":
NLG deploys green-hat "Legal Observers" to anti-ICE riots, documenting cops to build alibis and defenses.
Their hotlines handle arrests, jail support, and FBI inquiries, urging militants: "Call us first—stay silent!"
In Chicago's June 2025 anti-ICE demos, NLG sent 18 observers, provided legal aid to 17 arrested (amid reports of violent clashes), and denounced the police, not the protesters, as aggressive.
This is the legal arm in action, minimizing blowback for Antifa's violence.
🧵 I looked into Zohran Mamdani’s father and uncovered significant details about his extreme ideological views. This is concerning NYC.
Zohran Mamdani’s father, Mahmood Mamdani, a Columbia University professor specializing in anthropology, political science, and African studies, is recognized for his research on colonialism and postcolonialism.
He holds strong anti-Israel views, calling for the elimination of Israel as a state and comparing Zionism to apartheid.
On April 17, 2024, Columbia students and anti-Israel activists set up a pro-Hamas “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the university’s main lawn.
The protest resulted in numerous arrests and several violent incidents, including the occupation of a campus building and the brief hostage-taking of a university worker.
The activists condemned Israel’s military actions against Hamas and demanded that Columbia divest from entities they claim profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation. @DataRepublican
Professor Mahmood Mamdani joined an illegal 2024 encampment at Columbia, where faculty formed a human barrier to block Jewish students (and police) from the area, violating Title VI.
Mahmood Mamdani’s quotes of his strong anti-Israel views.